Biography Ednodio José Quintero Montilla was born on 11 March 1947 in the town of Las Mesitas, state of Trujillo, in the Andean mountains of Venezuela. A forestry engineer by training, Quintero exemplifies Venezuela’s long tradition of polymath hommes de plum (see Read More …
Biography Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello was born on 22 February 1908 in Guatire, a town on the outskirts of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. He was a member of a group of college students and activists who organized a Read More …
Biography Arturo Úslar Pietri is perhaps the most prominent Venezuelan intellectual of the twentieth century. His long intellectual career touched all aspects of life in the country. He was a prolific author of fiction, poetry and essays. He had a Read More …
Biography Vicente Gerbasi was born on 2 June 1913 in Canoabo, a small town about 21 miles from the city of Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. The son of immigrants from the region of Salerno, Italy, Gerbasi is sent to his parent’s native Read More …
Biography Alberto Barrera Tyszka was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on 18 February 1960. He is of Polish descent on his mother’s side and of Spanish-Algerian on his father’s (Quintanilla Muñoz n.p.). He went to a seminary to become a Jesuit Read More …
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